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Okay Rach, you win. Just like last time we spoke, I tried giving you the straightest answers I could but when I ask you straight questions, you dodge them and claim they're not relevant. You're not dealing fairly or honestly with me here, so I'm out. So long.

I was going to answer that but thought you were directing it at Vale, who I cannot see. Is it up for grabs?

God's use of nations, to honor or to dishonor, is the point of Romans 9. Paul makes this clear from the start of this chapter. Note that Paul anticipates objections he'll hear from self-righteous Jews upon the news that Israel AS A NATION has been set aside for the first time since God's...

Amen, amen and amen! Romans 7:20 is also a key UESIC verse. If those who are in Christ are dead and raised again in Him, and so are dead to sin and its condemnation, when they DO sin (and we do), where exactly is the sin coming from? It comes from the sin that still dwells within us. It is not...

Straw man. I only reported what I've read. I made no judgments here about any Catholics whatsoever (except the pope) regarding what they may or may not believe. Only that a lot of them are mighty ticked. Which they are. In spades. That you, evidently, are not among them says something. Your pope...

Read Galatians for a start.

You're right, but Rach asked for a reply to what she posted, and her interpretations are heavily weighted in Reformed theology. I had to respond in that context. So I'll just wrap myself up for now with this: Unconditional Eternal Security in Christ =/= Perseverance of the Saints. Two...

DD, Now I understand what you meant, thanks for clarifying.

First, let's be clear on one thing. Faith, most simply put, is simply believing what God wants us to believe, whatever it may be. Genesis 4:7 - Cain was born as "dead in sin" as anyone yet was given a clear choice by God to sin or not to sin. Cain heard, understood and could have believed and...

Amen - resting in Him precisely when it's being tested.

DD, I will retract everything I said on this topic, publicly apologize for hasty judgment and will request that, at your discretion, you delete this thread IF anyone who objects to what I've said can show where, in the course of his public communications in this matter, the pope stated in no...

I mean the guy Calvin got many of his (what we would call) Calvinistic notions from. That guy wasn't a protestant.

True but keep in mind from whom Calvin got much if not most of his notions, including (I'm pretty sure) that one. Hint: it wasn't a protestant.

If one is in Christ, he/she is already there.

The Gospel preached by Paul is a strawman? Welcome to my ignore list.

“Testifying both to the Jews and also to the Greeks, repentance toward God and faith toward our Lord Jesus Christ” Acts 20:21 Why are you insisting on derailing this thread from the topic of what the pope has said three times? Is that your way of defending him without coming out and saying you...

“How do we strengthen faith? Not by striving after faith, but by resting in the Faithful One.” -J. Hudson Taylor

Don't regret it one bit. Pre-faith regeneration is a false gospel.

David Cloud